Public education lies at the intersection of American democracy, national security and economic prosperity. Yet the achievement gap continues to afflict our nation and local communities. On this page, you will find Partners at work through a variety of publications, including academic journals, practitioner journals and other avenues, exploring the impact of our approach, providing thought leadership, and joining the critical conversation on what can be done to create opportunity for all.

Barela, Eric. Building the capacity of existing school leaders to lead transformation efforts: Processes and outcomes. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC, April 2012.

Barela. Eric. Lessons learned from creating a performance culture in a school-reform non-profit. [Power Point slides] Presented at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association. Anaheim, CA, November 2011.

Barela, Eric. Building and implementing a performance management system to inform evaluation: Lessons learned. [Power Point slides.] Presented at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association, San Antonio, TX, November 2010.

This draft is based on Principal Susan Mispagel’s account of Miner Elementary School’s work, given at Springboard Schools’ June, 2006 Best Practice Institute, supplemented by Partners’ co-founder, Julien Phillips’ interview of Poonam Singh regarding Miner’s breakthrough this year, and by Phillips’ own experience in working with Miner from 2003-2006.

The study presented here details the promise of action research as a reform strategy to connect the two levels of classroom and school.

Zarrow, Joel and Kay Moffett. A Kaleidoscope of Inquiry: How Schools Navigate the New Terrain of Practice. Presented at the American Education Research Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, 1999. Grose, Kim. Partners in School Innovation: An Unusual Approach to Change Facilitation. Presented at the American Education Research Association Conference (April 13-17), San Diego, CA, 1998.

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